Seam for sewed articles.



H. H. FEFEL.

SEAM FOR SEWED ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED DBO 28, 1906. RENEWED D110. 22, 1909.

Patented Aug. 10. 1909.

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UNITED STAiliS PATENT OFFICE- HENRY H. FEFEL, or NEW roan, N; Y.ASSIGNOR T DUPLEX SEWING momma coursing A CORPORATION or MARYLAND.

SEAN FOB BEWED ARTICLES.

mi. 930,868. Specification ofLe tters Patent. Patented Aug. 10, 1909.:Application filed December 28, 1908, Serial No. 349,826. RenewedDecember 22, 1908. 8611a! No. 8, 68.

work, and a thread-carrying looper located above the work and adapted tomoveto and fro between the needles at an angle to thg line of feed. 1 c-"I In Fig. 1 I have shown conventionally two so needles and athread-carrying looper arranged in operative relation, but the otherparts above mentioned are omitted, since. the form no art of the presentinvention" an may be any well known or any pre ferred construction.Referring to the drawing by characters, A, A, represent two verticallymoving needles, carrying threads 1 and 2 respectively,

To all whom it may concern: r

Be it lmhwn that I, HENRY H. Farnn, citizen of'the United States, andresident'of New York, in the county of N ew York and 5 State of NewYork,h ave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seams forSewed Articles, of which the following is a specification. a Thisinvention relates to ed gs or seams, one of my princi' al objects beingto produce a neat. and dura le covering for the edges of lace or otheropen-work or loosely woven material. It has been proposed. heretofore toapply 16 bindings or edgmgs to lace b first trimmingthe lace to thedesired outline, then laying cords along such trimmed outline on one orboth sides thereof, so that the open spaces on the pattern of the laceare bridged by a con- 20 tinuous bodyof material, and then joining thecords and lace together by an overseaming stitch. Such a method isdisclosed in the latter dpreferably, being: of heavier or thicker bo ythan the former. These two threads on" the upper surface of the oods B Ishow as two lines of stitching space apart, and on the under side of thegoods (Fig. 2) as two series of concatenated loops, each 15 loop ofthread 1 passing through the re viously-formerl loop in said thread aswe as United States patent to S. 'Borton, No. through a roviously formedloop in thread 556,300, March 10, 1896, but in this case as 2. A thirdthread 3 is carried by a loops; 0 well as inall others, in so far as Iam aware located above the Work and adapted to ass i the peculiar natureof the stitch and the to and fro between the needles at an ang e tomanner of applying the same have necessithe line of feed (representedbly the'arrow in tated trimming in advance of sewing. Fig. 1), the 100or crossing be ind needle A In accordance-with my invention, I clisandin front 0 needle A, and interlacing pense Withoords, tapes or the like,and form thread 3 with the loops of threads 1 and 2 as an ad f g by, aeculiar concatenation of clearly shown. threat reads whic I am enabledto apply to Fig, 1 shows several com letedi stitches the goodsby sewingthrough the same at any made through the oods, and several made 4desired distance from the edge thereof, and by sewing over 1: e ed e inwhich case then finish off by triniiuing close to the needle A passesclose tot e ed e of butd'oes threads; an obvious advantage. in wor 'ngnot pierce the goods. In this figure the neogoods of loose weave or ofopen or fliins na tiles are re resented as descendin for a new ture. Thenature of the stitch also admits of stitch, and as they pierce the goosneedle A sewing over the edge-9* of previously will be in front of andneedle A behind the lot) or C, and as the latter retreats loop a will beaft around said needle A laid across the goods to the other line of.stitching (thread 1) and under loop f of said thread. The needles nowrising, the feed takes place and the looper "comes forward and againpasses under thread 1 thereby The invention will be better understood byreference to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1. is aperspective dia ammatic 5 view illustrating my invention; ig. 2 is anunder lan view, also diagrammatic showing and thread 3' what use notappear in Fig. 1; Fig- 3 is a view showing an 'edgingapplied to a bit oflace or similar open wor material; Fig. 4 is 50 a view showing how twopieces of material .laid edge to edge may be united by my stitch.

In carrying out my invention I make use of two vertically movingneedles, a loo or 55 and loop retainer, both located beneath he leavinga loop around the loop just formed a in thread 1, and continues onacross" the goods and resents another loop to be taken off by nee e A. il

i It will be observed that thread 3 is so plied that every needle loopthreads is engaged thereby. No loops being ski pad the two lines aresecurely locked to-' get or both above andbeneath the goods,

Theherein described seanror edging for looselyjwoven fabrics comprisingtwo para1- lei rows of stitching formed by two distinct threads "whose100 s are interlinked on the underside of the fa ric by causin each loopof one of said threads to pass t rough the previousl formed loop of saidthread as well as throng 1 the'previously formed loop of the other ofsaid threads, in combination with a third thread which is laid inzig-zagiashion outer row of stitching wil across the upper surface ofthe oods fro1 one of said parallel rows of stitc g to the other andwhich forms a double series of open loops, every loop of the (inter rowof stitching bein embraced by a correspondingly located 00) in one ofsaid series of open loops formed by said third thread, and every loop ofthe inner row of said stitching being embraced b a corres ondinglylocated loo in the otlier series 0 0 en loops in said thir threadwhereby every 00p of said be fastened to and supported by said innerline of stitching both above and below the goods.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this22nd day of December A. D. 1906.

HENRY H. FEFEL.

Witnesses W. V. SCHRAMM, J. H. RUBENBTEIN.

